Necessity Quotes · Page 18

Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

— Anonymous

A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.

— Diane von Furstenberg

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer…

— Nelson Algren

“ontological necessity is not a property that can intelligibly attach to any nature other than God’s.”

— David Bentley Hart

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterwards forms itself into laws

— Michel De Montaigne

...experience should warn us that tough and unpopular decisions are only made under intense political pressure produced by urgent necessity.

— Tom McClintock

“Necessity knows no magic formuae—they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering…

— Milan Kundera

For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent…

— Andrew Jackson

Being truthful is a necessity because when I'm not being truthful it takes a toll on me. I don't have any room…

— Dax Shepard

Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine,…

— George W. S. Trow

Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and…

— Mitch Daniels

As the corruption of our nature shews the absolute necessity of regeneration, so the absolute necessity of regeneration plainly proves the corruption…

— Thomas Boston

You know the expression, 'Necessity is the mother of Invention'? It's gotten completely reversed. Now, it's 'Invention is the mother of Necessity.'…

— Ken Wahl

Happiness is not a luxury. It is a necessity. When we are happy, we are in the best possible place to be…

— Suze Orman

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

— Neal Cassady

I think, quite frankly, I have been on TV too much, but part of it is necessity, and part of it's ability.

— Big Show

I oftentimes find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out…

— Joel Edgerton

The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the…

— John Dewey

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

— Voltaire

The grand essentials of life are something to do, something to love, something to hope for.

— Santanu Mishra

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

— Francis Quarles

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I don't indulge in the luxury of feeling when necessity requires that we meet a target. One just bucks up and does…

— Lady Colin Campbell

But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

— Aeschylus

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for…

— Anonymous

As society has shifted from an agrarian to an urban structure, the joy and necessity of diligent, hard work have been neglected.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Just like a heart break is required to know the importance of 'LOVE'. Similarly, sometimes failure is required to know the importance…

— Anonymous

To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

— Samuel Johnson

“freedom must be won under the compulsion of a necessity. Freedom for the church comes from the necessity of the Word of…

— Eric Metaxas

Just about everything in life requires you to have patience, because without patience nothing will ever get done.

— Markus Anthony

Without hands you cannot hold, Without lips you can't be told, Without eyes you cannot see and , Without you lord there…

— Anonymous

Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

— Veerappa Moily

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

— Jose Rizal

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

— Bertrand Russell

“Romesh Chand was a man who did not believe in telephones, in the necessity for telephones,”

— Paul Scott

“No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche